From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The advantage, says a correspondent, of the revolution that has taken place in America, to all the lovers of liberty in Europe, must be immense. It seems to be a dispensation of Heaven favorable to them, as Well as…
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Washington Escapes Drowning
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 6.—Advices from the country are, that General Washington and Mr. Mead, his aide-de-camp, and his adjutant-general, were near being drowned last Saturday week [November 27?] by the overturning of a whale boat at a place called Sandy Point,…
The Siege of Savannah
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. [Paragraphs added for readability.] The chief-justice of Georgia, in a letter to his wife, dated November ninth, gives the following particular account of the siege of Savannah: Soon after my arrival, I made application to the barrack-master to be…
Clinton’s Negro Proclamation
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 30.—That wretched tool of a brutish tyrant, Sir Harry Clinton, in a proclamation, dated this day, has declared, “That all Negroes taken in arms, or upon any military duty, shall be purchased, and the money paid to the…
Major Bearmore
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 8.—Last night Colonel Armand, with one hundred infantry and about thirty horse, marched down as far as William’s, within four miles of King’s Bridge, near New York, where he posted his infantry to cover his retreat, and with…